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— Movers and Shakers —
Chief investment officer Andrew Mathias and chief credit officer Gregory Hughes also have stepped down. Holliday and Mathias will remain as consultants to Gramercy through Sept. 30, 2009. Cozzi has worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and was an investment officer for Starwood Mezzanine Investors LP. From 1998 to 2007 he was with iStar Financial Inc., a real estate investment trust focused on financing commercial real estate, where he became chief investment officer. Most recently, Cozzi was a managing director at Fortress Investment Group LLC. GKK Manager LLC, a majority-owned subsidiary of SL Green Realty Corp., manages Gramercy.
FBR Capital Markets Corp. enlisted Kurt Oehlberg, Sharon Weinstein and Christopher Weyers as managing directors in its investment banking group. Oehlberg joins the energy and natural resources group. He previously worked at Rothschild and Chase Securities. Weinstein joins the financial institutions group from Wachovia Securities LLC, where she was a managing director and sector head of depositary institutions corporate finance. Weinstein also worked at J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Banc of America Securities LLC. Weyers will work in the diversified industrials group. Before FBR, he headed the transportation and oil services banking unit at Fortis Securities LLC. Technology-focused Valhalla Partners added Kevin Greene as a principal on its investing team. Most recently, Greene worked at Flagship Ventures. He also worked at IBM Corp. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York and Hong Kong, where he handled equity, equity-linked and merger and acquisition financing transactions for technology, healthcare, media and energy-related clients. Trivest Partners IV LP brought in Todd Gross and Kevin Lyons
as associates. They will assist in analysis of investment
opportunities, the acquisition and oversight of portfolio companies and
in all deal sourcing activities. Gross was an investment banking analyst at Banc of America Securities LLC and worked in the tax department of KPMG. Lyons was with Raymond James & Associates, where he developed valuation analyses and financial models for potential mergers and acquisitions. Transaction advisory firm Riveron Consulting LP promoted Dana Gescheidle and Doug Noon as senior directors, and Todd Follet as a director. Gescheidle covers due diligence, management reporting and analysis and post transaction integration support. Jonathan Renfrew joined Brown Rudnick LLP as a director in the government law and strategies group in Washington. Renfrew was chief of staff to the vice chair of the House Democratic Caucus, Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., a member of the Ways and Means Committee and the Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. Real estate attorney Thomas Leslie left his position as vice chairman and managing partner of Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP's White Plains, N.Y., office to become managing shareholder of Greenberg Traurig LLP's new White Plains office. Former Thacher partner Thomas Infurna is joining him. Infurna handles commercial real estate law and asset-based finance. To launch the office, Greenberg also welcomed of counsel Kenneth Addeo, Gregory Murphy and Michael Vitolo, and associates Douglas Cain, Randy Eckers and Daniel Pennessi. Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP hired Kenneth Noble as co-chair of its New York bankruptcy and creditors' rights practice. Previous to this, Noble was a partner with Mayer Brown LLP. Noble represents domestic and foreign banks, financial institutions and lender groups in complex, out-of-court workouts and bankruptcy proceedings. Goodwin Procter LLP said seven attorneys from Heller Ehrman LLP will join the firm, expanding its real estate investment management and hospitality practices. Brian Smith, managing partner of Heller's London office and Robert Asher, a member of Heller's real estate and hospitality practice group, will join the firm as partners. In London, they are joined by associates Matthew Pohlman and Lindy Muto. Counsel Teresa Goebel, of counsel Judith Miles and associate Valerie Washburn will arrive in San Francisco. In New York, Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP took on Morris Simkin as counsel, covering corporate, securities and securities regulation. He was a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. Martin Erhardt in Munich and Peter Memminger in Frankfurt will become partners at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP on Nov. 1. Erhardt and Memminger cover mergers and acquisitions, focusing on private equity transactions. |
New York-based Gramercy Capital Corp. appointed Roger Cozzi (pictured left) as president and CEO, replacing Marc Holliday (right), who is leaving the post he held since Gramercy's inception in 2004.
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